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manzilla86 |
 Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:50 pm Post subject: Heat Lightning Time Lapse |
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This post perhaps should be in Off Topic talk, but oh well.
This summer I took a series of pictures during a heat lightning storm. I set up my Canon A610 to take a series of ten pictures at about 2 seconds Tv each. I kept hoping for a lightning bolt (not common in heat lightning,and the ones I did see I didn't capture), but since I didn't get one I simply stored my pics and left them for later.
This week I looked at them again and on a video editing program I faded them all together so you get an idea of what the storm looked like. You can watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw7aYmEy_Ms
Again, sorry if this is off-topic, but tell me what you think!
-Manzilla86 |
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| nana17 |
| Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| a little dark on my end. probably my monitor. i think it is a neat video. good work. lightning is very hard to capture and have it show up right |
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| manzilla86 |
| Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| No, it probably wasn't your monitor, it was pretty dark. Thanks for the comment though! |
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| ckurz7000 |
| Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:02 am Post subject: |
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I watched the video (actually, it doesn't show up too dark on my monitor) and here's one question: with each lightning inside the cloud you see a fade-in and fade-out of the glow. Since you mentioned earlier that your camery captured a frame every 2 secs, how did you capture the lighning glow?
-- Chris.
P.S.: I like the music, it goes together will with the video and makes for a nice atmosphere alltogether. |
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| manzilla86 |
| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:04 am Post subject: |
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I am not sure if I understand your question, but I will answer what I think you are asking.
This is a series of about thirty pictures. If the shutter was open for two seconds and there was a .1 second lightning flash, the entire picture would show that split second ( I know you understand this, I am just going through my thought process). Yet there were also a multiple amount of pictures that did not have any lightning activity, and therefore the cloud just looked like a dark cloud when the picture was taken.
Now I think I am getting to the part to answer your question. In short, the fade you are talking about is due to the video editing program I used. When I went from one picture to another, I did not simply set the pictures next to each other and play them fast (like traditional film works), I instead faded each picture with a dissolve into the next picture. The fade you are talking about was when a lightning picture was dissolving into a non-lightning picture.
That was a winded explination, and I hope I didn't confuse anyone. I also hope I answered your question.
Also, thanks for watching my video, it means a lot to me. |
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| ckurz7000 |
| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:18 am Post subject: |
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Yes, that was exactly my question. Thanks for the answer.
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| TrishaW |
| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I think you did a great job! |
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| manzilla86 |
| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 2:05 am Post subject: |
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